C550 down in California French Valley Airport

ChasenSFO said:
if you fly with your ass and watch the airspeed/AOA. Are these people just doing muscle memory and ignoring what the airplane wants? Yeah, it'll barely climb, but it won't fall out of the sky and spin/stall either if you watch what the plane is doing lol. Maybe because they aren't cognizant of the flaps being down, they don't respond properly?

Kind of like how doors opening in GA planes have caused tons of fatal crashes yet most people I know have probably had doors pop open on them multiple times in their life and...not died. Makes me wonder what is going on when I hear about that causing such a distraction that people spin/stall. Even know of at least 1 bizjet stall/spin crash because the nose door popped open and the pilots got distracted, I think Flying Magazine once did a whole big article on these accidents.
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Something like this. If you’re a trained professional and spend a lot of time with students right on the edge of critical AOA you understand how it works better and you can fly that buffet pretty precisely. Your likelihood of a positive outcome as an active, proficient CFI far exceeds that of a newly minted PPL with their family on board. Then again, as it turned out, the one I witnessed had a CFI on board giving dual instruction. Maybe the student froze and the instructor couldn’t overpower? Who knows. There, but for the Grace of [insert deity of your choice], go I.

In the case it happened to me, off the end of the short runway was a road, some power lines, and rising terrain. Middle of the summer in Texas. Great learning experience for the BFR guy, though. Luckily he knew enough to recognize he was in over his head and when I took control he took his hands off everything and let me do some of that pilot stuff.
 
roundout said:
I had to write a statement to the NTSB after witnessing someone try this in a 150 about 15 years ago. 2 fatal.

Someone also tried this with me while I was giving them a BFR. Seat cushion was sucked up. To this day I don’t know what I did to keep us from crashing.
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The FBO/Flight School that I worked as a kid rented to a man who took his dad for a nice Sunday flight in a 150. After bopping around out west they came back and he was going to do a few T&G's - I was on the ramp and see him touch down and begin the "Go" portion...he passes by having broken ground and he's got...40 degrees of flaps down/not climbing worth a damn. He gets to about 250-300 feet and turns crosswind. I'm listening on the handheld as he's on downwind - still incredibly low - and he reports that he flpped the flap switch up and the flaps didn't move. He made it around the pattern, landed and all was fine. But it was really exciting to watch. There was a torque tube that ran between the flaps if I recall and it broke somewhere. Not sure if I'm recalling the details exactly but it seems it was something like that.
 
Cherokee_Cruiser said:
Same. Is this an actual company called that? Or like a private individual who made a company called that (like a LLC) and put his own plane on that?
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It’s a corpie thing, you wouldn’t understand. LOL

JK…

The LLC acts as a tax and risk liability shelter for the entity that owns the aircraft. Basically.

But naming it Prestige Worldwide??

Wow


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It looks like a business was growing quickly.

Code: 
N550GZ    Citation II    Flybynight LLC    May 2022
N819KR    Citation II    Prestige Worldwide Flights LLC    September 2022
N100GG    Citation I SP    Prestige Worldwide Flight Club LLC    January 2023
N252RC    King Air C90A    Prestige Worldwide Flights Two LLC    March 2023
 
Minuteman said:
It looks like a business was growing quickly.

Code: 
N550GZ    Citation II    Flybynight LLC    May 2022
N819KR    Citation II    Prestige Worldwide Flights LLC    September 2022
N100GG    Citation I SP    Prestige Worldwide Flight Club LLC    January 2023
N252RC    King Air C90A    Prestige Worldwide Flights Two LLC    March 2023
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That's a pretty unimpressive list of aircraft, I will say that.
 
CFI A&P said:
N845JS
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That’s amazing

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